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American Cancer Society

American Cancer Society. Active For Life SM Participant Training. What is Active For Life?. Flexible, 10-week team-based worksite physical activity program Team-based approach, with ability to set individual goals

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American Cancer Society

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  1. American Cancer Society Active For LifeSM Participant Training

  2. What is Active For Life? • Flexible, 10-week team-based worksite physical activity program • Team-based approach, with ability to set individual goals • Receive a point for each minute of physical activity – counts toward individual and team goals • Participants, Team Captains, and Directors provide encouragement to succeed • Based on the Stages of Change Theory and the American Cancer Society (ACS) Guidelinesfor Physical Activity

  3. Participant Invitation • Receive the email invitation to join a team • Click on the Link or copy the link in its entirety and paste it in your browser, press return/enter

  4. Complete the Invitation Process • If you DO NOT have an ACS Account, choose “REGISTER” • Click “Accept Invitation” Accept terms of creating an ACS Account

  5. Complete Pre-Challenge Survey

  6. Your Dashboard

  7. Optional Food and Weight Trackers • Information you enter in the food, BMI and weight trackers are optional and confidential. This information does not show up in reports at the team, campaign or company level. You are the only one who can see this information.

  8. Customize Your Dashboard • Customize your dashboard by clicking “Customize My Dashboard” at the top left hand corner of your screen • Choose available tools to add to your dashboard • Once the tools are added to your dashboard, click “Close Customization” • You can rearrange the tools on your dashboard by clicking on the tool in the upper blue bars, holding down the left mouse button and dragging to another location on your dashboard • PLEASE NOTE: Not every company has made the weight and food trackers available to their AFL campaign. If you do not have a tool available in your customization area, it is because that tool is not available to your AFL campaign.

  9. Logging Physical Activity • Enter the amount of minutes of physical activity you completed in corresponding date. Click “Save” • You can log physical activity in the past up to two weeks but you can not log activity for future dates. • To access a previous week, click the orange left arrow

  10. Campaign Tools Participant Abilities • Click “Campaign Tools” then click on “Manage Profile”

  11. Campaign ToolsParticipant Abilities • To edit your available goals, click “Edit Goals” • The activity goal can not be changed, you can change your confidential weight and nutrition goals if applicable

  12. My Reports • Clicking “My Reports” will display your Activity Trend report, click the report title to see your report

  13. Help Features • The Help Button is role specific and has step by step instructions on how to do common participant tasks.

  14. Future Sign Ins • Each time you are ready to sign in to Active For Life, go to www.activeforlife.org • Click “Sign In” to access Active For Life • Do not attempt to sign in with your invitation link or through the Join a Team button

  15. Need More Help?Contact your Team Captainor activeforlife@cancer.org

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